Huawei E3131 3G Modem problem

[pigsfoot]

Hi, I hope someone can help.

I have become involved in my sons school project ( which I'm quite enjoying ) but unfortunately I have very little Linux knowledge.

We have a copy of kali working on a RPi, we are just using it to monitor and sniff the number of wireless devices at school. This is working well via Ethernet.

What we now need to do is now make the RPi mobile, i have purchased a Huawei E3131 3G USB Modem. It seems this is where the fun starts.

I could be wrong but have spent several days looking into this and now I'm stuck. Kali is recognising the 3G Modem as Mass Storage ( i think ) the code

lsusb

gives me is 12da:14dc

From what i have read i need to use USB-Modeswitch to swap it to a modem

The code i have tried which i found on another forum is

usb_modeswitch -v 0x12d1 -p 0x1f01 -V 0x12d1 -P 0x14dc -M "55534243123456780000000000000a11062000000000000100000000000000"

The response i am getting is

Look for target devices ...
product ID matched
Found devices in target mode or class (1)
Look for default devices ...
No devices in default mode found. Nothing to do. Bye!

The reason we have got to this stage is we are tiring to get either Sakis3G or WVdial to work and both suggest i should have a file within the /dev folder called something like ttyUSB*... this file doesn't exist, in fact i have nothing with ttyUSB at all, all tty file are numbered. If we run either application they both fail with tty error's

Can anyone help please or give me any pointers. I could be totally looking in the wrong place for which i apologise the info i have gained so far is from reading lots of other posts..

Thanks..

[pigsfoot]

Have managed to get a little bit further... i found this thread

http://askubuntu.com/questions/48993...ignal-strength

I created a file called 12d1:1f01 in the /etc/usb_modeswitch.d folder with the following code

# Huawei E3531s-2 - switch to modem mode instead of HiLink CDC-Ether mode
TargetVendor=0x12d1
TargetProduct=0x1f01

# switch to 12d1:1001 (modem mode, 3 virtual serial ports)
MessageContent="55534243123456780000000000000011062000000100000000000000000000"

# switch to 12d1:14dc (default HiLink CDC-Ether mode)
# MessageContent="55534243123456780000000000000a11062000000000000100000000000000"

# switch to 12d1:1442 (debug mode with 2 virtual serial ports)
# MessageContent="55534243000000000000000000000011060000000000000000000000000000"

Rebooted the RPi and the Huawei stick is still listed as mass storage.

If i now run the following

usb_modeswitch -v 12d1 -p 1f01 -M '5553424312345678000000000000001106200000010000000 0000000000000'

It works and a lsusb now shows the Huawei USB stick as a HSDPA modem with an ID of 12d1:1001

I also now have several ttyusb files listed

One issue is you have to run the usb-modeswitch command on every boot up so i need to work out a way to run that on boot.

Next stage is to get a dialing program to work.

Any suggestions on how to automate the usb_modeswitch command or suggestions on dalliers would be appreciated.

Thanks...

[hansbrattberg]

I'm not sure it's the right way of doing this.
But In order to get my Huawei E303 to work after a cold reboot, I added the line

sudo usb_modeswitch -v 0x12d1 -p 0x1f01 -M "55534243123456780000000000000a1106200000000000010 0000000000000"

in the file /etc/rc.local/

But I'm wondering if there's a better way?